My primary interest in lojban is as a "high" language (like liturgical
latin) for a self-organized distributed community.

My pragmatic initial goal is to translate the ideoms of the python
programming language into lojban and make a substitute parser for
python such that you can type lojban into it.

These things are related, but I won't bore you with the torturous
inference.

OK, I'll bite.

Ug. Ok, the following is still hypercondensed but carries some flavour:

My goal is to make software that subsumes the administrative functions
of "management" or "governance" while retaining all the actual decision
making authority on the human side.

There are a bunch of things that can be done to make this work, but
eventually the system needs to aquire the ability to just be "another
person in the room" when decisions are made and so on and so forth.

Lojban removes many of the nuances of traditional language that make it
hard to parse lexically as well as semantically. I don't think, given
the way humans can trivially state things in natural language that are
very ambiguous, that increases in processor power will solve this problem.

I have also come to the conclusion that humans anthropomorphise
everything, and so if you're making machines to deal with people, you
just have to "sketch them in" and people will fill in the rest. Will
Wright talks about this when he discusses Simish.

This is most trivial in ritualized contexts where the set of possible
behaviours is somewhat restricted.

In short, I believe that if decision making processes of a distributed
community are slightly ritualized and spoken in lojban, machines can
meaningfully participate in the process of governance/order.

I do not know the precise mechanism by which I will effect this, and
premature optimization is always a mistake. Therefore, I will translate
an object oriented turing complete language, like python, into lojban,
and then begin implementing the decision making tools in lojban/python,
so that when I finally have a decent amount of the problem set
addressed, the "speakability" will be "already there".

I think I can get a decent amount of mileage without lojban, but I think
lojban will be the tool that "bridges the gap" between machines and man
and makes the interaction truly "seamless".